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	<title>Jeff Wartman &#187; Uncategorized</title>
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		<title>Joe Ricketts Supports then Denounces anti-Obama Ad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 00:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Ricketts &#8211; the patriarch of the Ricketts family who started TD Ameritrade and who&#8217;s family now owns the Chicago Cubs &#8211; was reported to be financing a superPAC that would highlight Obama&#8217;s ties to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, has backed off that stance late in the day today. My criticism of Ricketts has less to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metra NATO Security Measures Illustrate Overreaction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 14:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There hasn&#8217;t been a bigger story than the upcoming NATO summit in local Chicago media in a long time.  If you were to just listen to local media, you&#8217;d think we&#8217;re in the middle of Baghdad in the spring of 2003. Because there is going to be a large amount of world leaders and dignitaries [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans: Yes to Firing Employees for Being Gay</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two Republican House members, Allen West and James Lankford have announced support for repealing laws that protect gay people from being fired only because they are gay.  Is that the type of country people want to live in? Allen West illustrated how insanely idiotic the idea is when speaking about discrimination he stated: &#8220;That don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama Stands for Equality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 00:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unless you live under a rock, you&#8217;ve undoubtedly heard President Obama clarify and strengthen his position on marriage equality for same sex couples. The right has already had a coronary, amid charges of flip flopping.  While Obama&#8217;s position has evolved, he has the benefit of an ideological evolution to the just side of history, which is more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stay Classy, West Virginia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 17:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have no words for this. Keith Judd, who is serving a 17 1/2-year prison sentence for extortion at the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas, took 41 percent of the vote in West Virginia’s Democratic primary Tuesday night — 72,000 votes to Obama’s 106,000. He would qualify for convention delegates, if anyone had signed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tea Party Takeover of the Republican Party is Complete</title>
		<link>http://jeffwartman.com/the-tea-party-takeover-of-the-republican-party-is-complete/</link>
		<comments>http://jeffwartman.com/the-tea-party-takeover-of-the-republican-party-is-complete/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 01:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who denied that the Tea Party has overwhelmingly taken over and controls the Republican Party, you&#8217;ve been proven wrong.  The Tea Party is now openly the establishment of the Republican Party&#8230; The Tea Party tossed another veteran Republican overboard Tuesday night, voting six-term Republican Sen. Dick Lugar from office in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the GOP going &#8220;Full-Birther&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://jeffwartman.com/is-the-gop-going-full-birther/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 17:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As each day passes, more and more Republican candidates are taking the &#8220;birther&#8221; line and running with it. Richard Hudson, a GOP candidate in the race to unseat Rep. Larry Kissell (D) in the 8th Congressional District, made headlinesin April when he told a Tea Party group “there’s no question President Obama is hiding something on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inventor of Paul Ryan plan explains why Paul Ryan is wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 01:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Paul Ryan could count on the support of one person in his budget fight, it&#8217;s the person he actually got his ideas from about his desire to cut Medicare.  Looks like he won&#8217;t be able to count on that support&#8230; The co-creator of the concept that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is relying upon to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remember Scott Walker&#8217;s Jobs Promise?</title>
		<link>http://jeffwartman.com/remember-scott-walkers-jobs-promise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 16:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the hubbub that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker made over Illinois tax rates and trying to get companies to move to Wisconsin?  Looks like he&#8217;s failed, because Wisconsin is currently leading the nation in job losses. While Wisconsin Gov, Scott Walker (R) fights to keep his job in a recall election scheduled for June, he is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Romney Would Not Have Killed Osama bin Laden</title>
		<link>http://jeffwartman.com/romney-would-not-have-killed-osama-bin-laden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 15:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Osama bin Laden was the one fugitive everyone has wanted to capture in the last decade.  However, Mitt Romney has admitted, if you believe his own rhetoric, that he would not have went after Osama bin Laden&#8230; “I do not concur in the words of Barack Obama in a plan to enter an ally of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joe Walsh: Obama Only Elected Because He&#8217;s Black</title>
		<link>http://jeffwartman.com/joe-walsh-obama-only-elected-because-hes-black/</link>
		<comments>http://jeffwartman.com/joe-walsh-obama-only-elected-because-hes-black/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 00:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Walsh embarrassed himself again today: &#8220;He was a historic figure. He’s our first African-American president. The country voted for him because of that. It made us feel good about [our]self.&#8221; Walsh said Ouch.  Walsh has played the race card again and again in attempt to save his own career &#8212; without politics, Walsh hasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Stupidity from Ted Nugent</title>
		<link>http://jeffwartman.com/more-stupidity-from-ted-nugent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like the moronic comments from Nugent keep coming. &#8220;To think that there&#8217;s a bureaucrat in the United States Army that would consider the use or abuse of First Amendment rights in determining who is going to perform at an Army base is an insult and defiles the sacrifices of those heroes who fought for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republican Leaders Have Always Supported Obstructing Obama Programs</title>
		<link>http://jeffwartman.com/republican-leaders-have-always-supported-obstructing-obama-programs/</link>
		<comments>http://jeffwartman.com/republican-leaders-have-always-supported-obstructing-obama-programs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new book by Robert Draper documents that top Republican lawmakers, including Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor,  Tom Coburn, Pete Hoekstra, Kevin McCarthy, Jon Kyl, John Ensign &#8212; and disgraced former Speaker Newt Gingrich and noted spin artist Frank Luntz &#8212; decided on election night 2008 that no matter whether he created jobs or did well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scott Brown Comes Out Against Bipartisanship</title>
		<link>http://jeffwartman.com/scott-brown-comes-out-against-bipartisanship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Brown, the U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, has always spoke up his bipartisan and moderate bona fides.  However, he has finally decided to support Republican obstructionism of the President&#8217;s agenda, even when it&#8217;s about creating jobs.  From a news article about a recent Scott Brown fundraising article: If there is one thing that’s central to Senator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Choice in November</title>
		<link>http://jeffwartman.com/the-choice-in-november/</link>
		<comments>http://jeffwartman.com/the-choice-in-november/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Romney is all but officially the Republican nominee, the choice in November has been made clear.  Neil Steinberg closed a recent column with an outstanding thought: Sometimes you need to shout “fire!” because the place is burning. The Republican approach is wrong. There is no past to go back to. The only direction [...]]]></description>
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